A Powerful Ally In Your Battle Against Man Boobs

Compared to other hormones involved in fat regulation and the development of man boobs, like estrogen, testosterone, and insulin, we know very little about leptin.

From what we know, it could be that leptin is just as important as these three hormones when it comes to losing weight and losing man boobs.

Leptin is a satiety hormone that is released by fat cells to tell your brain to stop wanting to eat so much. It kills hunger, and is supposed to make you eat less and lose weight.

When scientists first discovered leptin, they were overjoyed, they thought they could just inject this hormone into fat people to reduce their appetite and make them lean.

But they found that fat people already have high levels of leptin, and injecting extra leptin did nothing.

This is because overweight people have leptin resistance, where the hunger suppressing effects of leptin no longer work so well, and you’re left with leptin’s negative effects, which include, among other things, breast growth, growth of cancers, and inflammation.

And it’s not just fat people who have high levels of leptin and leptin resistance, studies show that people with man boobs have high levels of leptin too1.

Normal levels of leptin are fine.

Low levels tell your brain you are starving, and make you want to eat more.

High levels should theoretically make you eat less, but it doesn’t actually work that well because of leptin resistance.

If you want to lose weight or lose man boobs, the best thing you can do with leptin, is to both improve leptin sensitivity and lower leptin levels back to normal levels.

When the hunger center in your brain is more sensitive to leptin, your body needs only a small amount of leptin to keep hunger at bay.

The idea is to keep leptin levels low, because leptin is not a good hormone to have high levels of in your body.

These are three very powerful hormones working together to keep you fat, and keep you from ever losing your man boobs.

So What Do You Do When Your Town Is Invaded By These 3 Very Powerful, Seemingly Unstoppable Foes Who Are Working Together?

You can send in the male sex hormone testosterone to help you.

Testosterone suppresses leptin levels and counteracts the effects of both leptin and estrogen, and it kicks insulin in the teeth by improving insulin sensitivity.

But the trouble here is that testosterone is handicapped big time by the enzyme aromatase, which sees to it that any excess testosterone is converted into estrogen.

It’s kind of like in the game, Age of Empires, where the enemy’s monks can convert your most powerful units onto the enemy’s side.

Or like in Game of Thrones (season 7 spoiler alert), where the Lich King converted the most powerful unit on the good guy’s side, onto the dark side.

You can try testosterone therapy, but only under the guidance of a well-experienced physician. Get it wrong, and too much exogenous testosterone can end up giving you full-on hormonal gynecomastia. Testosterone therapy is one of the most common cause of gynecomastia, and it’s all because of testosterone’s conversion to estrogen by the enzyme aromatase.

So like the Elite War Elephant walking into a blockade of enemy monks, or a dragon flying into spear-range of the Lich King, testosterone is a potential liability.

Thankfully, I Know Of Something Else That’s Designed By Nature To Counteract The Effects Of The Evil Trio Of Hormones, Leptin, Estrogen And Insulin

Unlike testosterone, this other hormone cannot be converted to the dark side by aromatase or by anything else, which means you can use it all by yourself at home, without the guidance of an experienced physician (though I would recommend still seeing a physician who's experienced in bioidentical hormone therapy for men).

It’s as powerful an asset as an Elite War Elephant in the Age of Empires, or a dragon in Game of Thrones, and yet it’s impervious to conversion by monks or by the Lich King.

I can’t promise that progesterone alone will make your man boobs vanish, but by kicking leptin in the teeth, it will, at the very least, make losing man boobs and reducing body fat, easier, it will make it happen faster, and it will make it easier to keep the man boobs off and to keep the fat off for the rest of your life.

If you want to get started with progesterone, you can read my article about it here: